Greg Poss

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Greg Poss
Date of birth May 6, 1965
place of birth Green Bay , Wisconsin , USA
size 183 cm
Weight 80 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1985-1989 University of Wisconsin
1989-1991 Maine Mariners
1991-1992 Peoria Rivermen

Greg Poss (born May 6, 1965 in Green Bay , Wisconsin ) is a retired American ice hockey player and current coach . Until the end of February 2019 he was head coach of EC Salzburg .

In the previous course of his career, Poss coached the Iserlohn Roosters , Nürnberg Ice Tigers and Adler Mannheim in the German Ice Hockey League . From October 2004 to November 2005 he was the national coach of the German national ice hockey team .

Career as a player

Greg Poss began his career with the Dubuque Fighting Saints in the United States Hockey League . He then played for four years for the University of Wisconsin ice hockey team . In 1989 he made his professional debut in the American Hockey League for the Maine Mariners . After two seasons he moved to the International Hockey League for the Peoria Rivermen . After a serious knee injury, he had to end his playing career.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1985/86 University of Wisconsin NCAA 3 0 0 0 0
1986/87 University of Wisconsin NCAA 20th 0 2 2 12
1987/88 University of Wisconsin NCAA 40 2 12 14th 44
1988/89 University of Wisconsin NCAA 38 5 4th 9 32
1989/90 Maine Mariners AHL 50 8th 8th 16 54 - - - - -
1990/91 Maine Mariners AHL 60 9 20th 29 49 1 0 1 1 0
1991/92 Peoria Rivermen IHL 18th 1 4th 5 41 - - - - -
NCAA overall 101 7th 18th 25th 88
AHL total 110 17th 28 45 103 1 0 1 1 0

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Career as a coach

Club coach

Due to the early end of his playing career, Greg Poss became coach of the Swedish club Olofström IK at the age of 25 . Then he came to Germany, where he first trained in Sonthofen and the EC Timmendorfer Strand . With the Iserlohn Roosters , whom he trained from 1997 on, he rose to the DEL in 2000 . Despite having by far the smallest budget in the league, the Roosters under Poss barely missed the play-offs in 2002/03 . Thereupon he was chosen as the “best trainer of the DEL”. In Iserlohn he was voted Trainer of the Year in 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000 and 2001. In the following season, the American moved to the Nürnberg Ice Tigers . With them he finished 5th in 2003/04 and 2004/05 respectively. As the successor to Stéphane Richer , he took over Adler Mannheim on December 14, 2005 . After the play-offs were missed in 2005/06 , Poss achieved the double of cup victory and championship with the Adler in 2006/07 . After a bad start and a series of bankruptcies, he was released on December 22, 2007 in Mannheim and replaced by Dave King . In 2010 he signed a two-year contract as head coach with the Florida Everblades , with which the American won the Kelly Cup for the first time in the 2011/12 season. He stayed with the Everblades until the end of the 2015/16 season. On May 26th, 2016 he was introduced as head coach at EC Salzburg from the Austrian ice hockey league . In the 2018/19 season he led Salzburg to the semi-finals of the Champions Hockey League . At the end of February 2019, he was dismissed as a coach at EC Salzburg due to a lack of sporting success. The team lost six of the previous seven games under his leadership.

Club statistics

season team league annotation
1996/97 EHC Timmendorfer Strand 1. LgN 3rd place (HR), play-offs (AF)
1997/98 Iserlohner EC 1. LgN 3rd place (HR), play-offs (HF)
1998/99 Iserlohner EC BL 4th place (HR), play-offs (VF)
1999/00 Iserlohner EC 2nd BL 6th place (HR), play-offs (VF)
2000/01 Iserlohn Roosters DEL 15th place (HR), no play-offs
2001/02 Iserlohn Roosters DEL 12th place (HR), no play-offs
2002/03 Iserlohn Roosters DEL 9th place (HR), no play-offs
2003/04 Nuremberg Ice Tigers DEL 2nd place (HR), play-offs (VF)
2004/05 Nuremberg Ice Tigers DEL 3rd place (HR), play-offs (VF)
2005/06 Adler Mannheim DEL 10th place (HR), no play-offs
2006/07 Adler Mannheim DEL 1st place (HR), champion and cup winner
2007/08 Adler Mannheim DEL in office until December 22, 2007
2010/11 Florida Everblades ECHL 1 round
2011/12 Florida Everblades ECHL Kelly Cup win

National coach

Since October 1st, 2004, Poss has looked after the German national ice hockey team in a double function . After the end of the 2004/2005 season , he resigned from the Ice Tigers. With the German Ice Hockey Federation (DEB) he signed an open-ended contract at the beginning of February 2005 , although the results so far have not been so positive. At the Germany Cup 2004 they lost four times in four games and at a four-nation tournament in Budapest they lost to Canada and Slovakia. A disgrace was prevented by a 4: 3 against the hosts Hungary. In preparation for the 2005 World Cup, things went better: Against the USA, they just missed a surprise with a 2: 3, in Belarus they even won 4: 1. At the World Cup, however, you could not celebrate a victory in the preliminary round, which is why you had to go into the relegation round. The German national team picked up three points from three games and was relegated to the B group as the penultimate of the relegation. As a result, the criticism in the media increased and there were rumors of a replacement from Poss. Despite protests, Poss remained the DEB national coach. The previous co-trainers Ernst Höfner and Bernhard Englbrecht were replaced by Uwe Krupp and Klaus Merk . His contract was terminated on December 14, 2005, and Uwe Krupp was announced as his successor a day later.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EC Red Bull Salzburg. In: ecrbs.redbulls.com. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Red Bull Salzburg and Poss go their separate ways. In: Hello Hockey Night. February 26, 2019, accessed February 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Salzburg separates from coach. In: sport.ORF.at. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Red Bull Salzburg parted ways with coach Greg Poss. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Poss, Greg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Green Bay , Wisconsin, United States